Application of CAD/CAE Tools in the Design and Analysis of Plastic Injection Mould

Nuhu Adam Sulaiman; Zhang Deqiang; Mustapha Mukhtar Usman; Abdulrahaman S. Ahmad

Authors

Nuhu Adam Sulaiman Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano, Nigeria
Zhang Deqiang Department of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Liaoning University of Technology, Jinzhou 121001, China
Mustapha Mukhtar Usman Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano, Nigeria
Abdulrahaman S. Ahmad Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Nigeria

Keywords:

CAD/CAE, solidWorks, ANSYS, aluminum alloy, modeling, injection mould, 3D CAD model

Abstract

Application of CAD/CAE tools in the process of design and analysis of plastic injection mould reduce lead time of the product development and enhance the quality of the product. This paper describes a knowledge-based oriented, parametric, modular and feature-based integrated computer-aided design/computer-aided engineering (CAD/CAE) system for mould design and analysis. The analysis of mould cavity was carried out on different conditions and parameters and the results were tabulated, the results showed that CAD/CAE tools were an excellent approach for analyzing mould defects. With optimum utilization of integrated 3D CAD/CAE system, the injection moulding industries can greatly improve on their process capabilities, predict possible defects before the manufacturing tryout, identify the causes of defects and achieve high quality components at low cost, in a shorter time and greatly enhance the competitiveness of the industry.